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Anyone but her!
SoreShoulder
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I had an unusual feeling which could have just been a daydream that a certain very important person was looking at me with her mind's eye from a distance, with flattery that I estimated to be insincere. It was not an actual hallucination of them being in the room, just a slight notion that I was on their mind.
It persisted for several hours and I even thought I daydreamed that she was sending me kind little bits of advice, taking an interest in the little things I did as I puttered around at home, went to the grocery store, etc.
It got even a little intrusive. I began wondering what was going on, and what I should do about it. Someone else seemed to want to advise me to second guess my estimation that the flattery was insincere. They thought I should ask her out.
The very moment I even considered the notion, it seemed she noticed what I was thinking, and bam. Flattery over. I almost thought I heard her say, "it is too bad you resisted our schoolteacher track." The oppressive feeling that she was looking at me vanished like a puff of smoke.
I then felt one of the most powerful women in our community was simply showing everyone else an example of how they are to treat me. When you realize I didn't donate my career to the Church, all your interest in me and any attention you are showing me must instantly vanish.
I then remembered I had had the feeling she was investigating my business years before. She was an important Catholic in a large city near mine and it seemed she had wanted to know why I wouldn't teach for Catholic schools since my career in a different degree field just wasn't getting off the ground.
I then remembered I had had the feeling she was investigating my business years before. She was an important Catholic in a large city near mine and it seemed she had wanted to know why I wouldn't teach for Catholic schools since my career in a different degree field just wasn't getting off the ground.
I had decided that if they want schoolteachers, let them pay qualified professionals a wage their work is worth, but it would be immoral for me to take their money because I couldn't shake the suspicion that it had been planned for me to not be able to get work in my degree field. I don't know by whom. If there is a secret cabal within our church which plans to hold certain people back in order to cheapen their schoolteaching or ministry, they don't advertise themselves.
I had begun to suspect for example that they kept track of who was exploitable and how. Some party or other at my home parish in another state had, for example, noticed that I was a little obsessive so they steered me toward daydreaming about explaining things with clarity and precision and I wasted many a useful hour obsessing over putting things clearly. They'd probably be all like "I didn't tell you to practice all the time. What, do you think I know anything about why you would want to?"
Some "strong Christians" do believe in slavery and may simply be advancing their cause when they try for public office.
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Picking your own mushrooms requires a little training.
Brad Steele
Ho Buoy...............................................................................🤦♂️
"I am not sympathetic to the Confederacy or its constitution."
-Soreshoulder-
Well Bless Your Heart. It is not your fault you were born on the wrong side of the fence. The South did not fight the War of Northern Aggression over Slavery, they fought the War over undue Taxation and the North trying to impose their Will (against the Constitution I might add.) against the South.
Kimi will probably chime in here somewhere about all the rules/Laws that Abraham Lincoln pushed aside in his push for an illegal War, killing more Americans than many Wars since.
Perhaps you should brush up on your History.
Oh, ......................and take your Meds. 😉
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Not Confucius
Brad Steele
Late Lament
Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy is spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one;
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is grey is yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion
With this quote, I can only add that the world we live in today is ...... ..
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
If your cup is full may it be again
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
Brad Steele
The lone dissenting judge was Barrett. In a 38-page dissent, she argued that history and practice from the founding era showed that the Framers did not intend to deny gun ownership to all felons, just those who could be dangerous. “Neither Wisconsin nor the United States has introduced data sufficient to show that disarming all nonviolent felons substantially advances its interest in keeping the public safe,” she wrote. “Nor have they otherwise demonstrated that Kanter himself shows a proclivity for violence. Absent evidence that he either belongs to a dangerous category or bears individual markers of risk, permanently disqualifying Kanter from possessing a gun violates the Second Amendment.”
Federal appeals courts are bound to follow the Supreme Court’s precedents in any given case. But when it comes to the Second Amendment, those precedents are far from settled. In the 2008 case D.C. v. Heller, the court ruled for the first time that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to bear arms unrelated to any militia function. Two years later, in McDonald v. Chicago, the court held that the Second Amendment’s protections also apply to state laws. The two decisions marked a sea change in how the courts interpreted the right to bear arms and cast doubt on a wide swath of gun-related restrictions nationwide.
By incorporation through Due Process, Heller and McDonald have transformed the 2nd Amendment (substantially) into a collective right. In the highlighted section above, Barrett has succinctly expressed the individual liberty ensconced in the 2nd Amendment, and puts her on a much higher plain than her mentor, Scalia.
Brad Steele
Are you asking why someone who was basically well off did what you imagined she did based upon your assessment of her motives?
I am confused here.
Well someone is confused here.
Probably me.
Maybe not.
Brad Steele